You sense an attempted subversion of a fairytale in Amy Conroy's Princess and the Pea-inspired play for young audiences
The Ark
Feb 14-Mar 15
My review of Far Away From Me by Amy Conroy coming up after the jump ...
Showing posts with label Raymond Scannell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Raymond Scannell. Show all posts
Friday, February 27, 2015
Friday, January 3, 2014
More Irish Theatre Highlights of 2013
Wayne Jordan's kinetic production of The Threepenny Opera brought movement that is rarely seen on the Gate stage.
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Raymond Scannell, 'DEEP': Like the Legend of the Phoenix
Half Moon Theatre, Cork Midsummer Festival
Jun 21-30
My review of Raymond Scannell's new play DEEP coming up just as soon as I get laughed at by a Depeche Modist ...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
THISISPOPBABY and the Abbey Theatre, ‘Alice in Funderland’: Curiouser and Bleerun’ Curiouser!
The Abbey Theatre, Dublin
Mar 30-May 12
My review of Alice
in Funderland coming up just as soon as I provoke you by failing to
distinguish between a cravat and a scarf ...
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Live Collision | Bite Size, ‘Before Talkies’ & ‘Orchid’
Project Arts Centre, Dublin
Dec 1-3
A few thoughts on Live Collision | Bite Size coming up
just as soon as I have my photograph taken …
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Raymond Scannell, ‘MIMIC’: A Sweet Phenomenon
Project Arts Centre, Dublin
Feb 22-26
My review of the wonderful Mimic coming up just as soon as I paint a masterpiece sorta thing …
Monday, February 7, 2011
February 2011 Listings: An Encore for Raymond Scannell’s ‘Mimic’, Raincoats ‘At Swim’
A fluttering of tweets this evening has announced the programming of a show called Mimic at the Project Arts Centre from Feb 22-26. After doing my homework I learned that Mimic is playwright/actor Raymond Scannell’s dark satire about “exploring imitation, authenticity and what happens to a nation that leaves its heritage behind”. I saw Scannell in Druid’s The Walworth Farce in 2009, in which he was fantastic. Mimic sits the actor at a grand piano, where he tells the story of a man who’s become a professional Mimic and left a cultural climate of economic and spiritual freefall and then returns home to find things have changed. Scannell bagged the Best Male Performance Award ABSOLUT Fringe 2009 for the role.
Tom Creed (Attempts on Her Life, Watt) is billed as director in past press releases of the show, though there is no mention of him on the Project website in relation to this run. Creed is one of the most ingenious practitioners in the country at the moment, having in the past year put together Una Santa Obscura (another musical composition realised for stage, this time combining an elliptical violin sonata with a coherent theatrical narrative in marvelling a devout mystic and composer of the 12th century) and Berlin Love Tour, the latter of which was one of the greatest shows I saw last year and for which performer Hilary O’Shaughnessy is a contender for the Irish Times Theatre Awards.
I carelessly left out mention in my February Listings of Blue Raincoat’s adaptation of Flann O’Brien’s At Swim: Two Birds at the Project Arts Centre, Feb 22nd-Mar 5th. Having seen it back in 2009 I would highly recommend it. Blue Raincoat’s production values are nailed together by the ensemble’s command of corporal mime techniques. These guys are absolutely marvellous to see moving onstage. I’ll be writing a post where people can find my review of the 2009 show and discuss the Project show if desired (I know the cast has had some changes and the show could possibly have developed since last I saw it).
So, do you think you’ll be going to Mimic or At Swim: Two Birds?
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